Repeated distances in space (Q1109785)

Let \(X=\{x_1,x_2,...,x_n\}\) be a set of \(n\) points in \(R^d\), \(d\geq 2\), and let \(R=\{r_1,r_2,...,r_n\}\) be a set of \(n\) positive real numbers. The repeated distance graph \(G_d(X,R)\) is the directed graph on the point set \(X\) with edges \((x_i,x_j)\) whenever \(d(x_i,x_j)=r_i/d\) denotes Euclidean distance. The authors present bounds on the maximum number of edges that \(G_d(X,R)\) can have. In addition, it is shown that \[ \frac{n^2}{4}\quad +\quad \frac{3n}{2}\quad \leq \quad f(3,d)\quad \leq \quad \frac{n^2}{4}\quad +\quad \frac{3n}{2}\quad +\quad 255, \] where \(f(3,d)\) is the maximum number of edges of \(G_3(X,R)\) in which \(r_i=\max_{i\neq j}d(x_i,x_j)\) holds.